Education:

• Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1989)
• M.Eng. Technical University of Szczecin, Poland (1980)

Positions held in the past:

• 1992-2000: Associate Professor, INRS-Telecommunications, Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada (currently Invited Professor)
• 1991-1992: Assistant Professor, INRS-Telecommunications, Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada (currently Invited Professor)
• 1989-1991: Postdoctoral fellow, INRS-Telecommunications, Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada
• 1984-1989: Research Assistant, McGill University, Department of Electrical Engineering
• 1980-1984: Lecturer, Technical University of Szczecin, Department of Electrical Engineering, Szczecin, Poland

Awards:

• 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award for paper co-authored with Christoph Stiller entitled ``Estimating motion in image sequences: A tutorial on modeling and computation of 2D motion" (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 16, July, 1999).
• 2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award for paper co-authored with Nikola Bozinovic entitled ``Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding" (Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 20, July 2005).

Professional responsibilites:

• Member, Technical Committee
  Image and  Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee (IMDSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000-2006)
   
• Associate Editor
  Signal Processing Letters (2002-2004)
• Associate Editor
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-2000)
• Associate Technical Editor
  IEEE Communications  Magazine (1998-present)
• Associate Editor
  EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2006-present)
   
• Co-Chair, Technical Program
  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2000 (Sep. 10-13 2000, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
• Co-Chair, Tutorials
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP-2004 (May 17-24, 2004, Montreal, QC,  Canada)
   
• Member, Organizing Committee
  SPIE/IS&T  Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference within Electronic Imaging (1999-2007, San Jose/Santa Clara, CA, USA)
• Member, Program Committee
  IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, SSIAI (April 2-4, 2000, Austin, TX; April 7-9, 2002, Santa Fe, NM; March 28-30, 2004, Lake Tahoe, NV; March 26-28, 2006, Denver, CO, USA)
• Member, Technical Program Committee
  International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization, VMV (November 20-22, 2002, Erlangen, Germany; November 19-21, 2003, Munich, Germany; November 16-18, 2004, Stanford, CA, USA; November 16-18, 2005, Erlangen, Germany; November 22-24, 2006, Aachen, Germany)
• Member, International Program  Committee
  International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP (May 28-30, 1997, Poznan, Poland; June 3-5, 1998, Zagreb, Croatia; June 2-4, 1999, Bratislava, Slovakia; June 7-9, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia; June 7-9, 2001, Bucharest, Romania; November 7-8, 2002, Manchester, UK; September 10-11, 2003, Prague, Czech Republic; September 13-15, 2004, Poznan, Poland)
• Member, Program Committee
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME (July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)}
• Member, Program Committee
  SPIE/IS&T Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference within Electronic Imaging, VCIP (January 15-19, 2006; January 28-February 1, 2007, San Jose, CA, USA)
• Member, Program Committee
  SPIE/IS&T Image and Video Communications and Processing Conference within Electronic Imaging, IVCP (January 23-27, 2005, San Jose, CA, USA)
• Member, Technical Program Committee
  4-th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, WIAMIS, (April 9-11, 2003, London, UK; June 6-8, 2007, Santorini, Greece)
• Member, Technical Program Committee
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (2002 - Communications, Multimedia and VoIP -- Services and Technologies Symposium, New York, NY, USA; 2003 - Global Services and Infrastructure for Next Generation Networking, Anchorage, Alaska}
• Member, Technical Program Committee
  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-1998 (Oct. 4-7 1998, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Member, National Scientific Committee
  IMACS  Symposium on Signal Processing and Neural Networks, SPANN-1993 (May 10-12 1993, Montreal, QC)
   
• Organizer, Special Session: ``Digital stereoscopic and 3-D imaging: from research laboratory to mainstream applications''
  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2000 (Sep. 10--13 2000, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
• Organizer, Special Session: ``Digital Stereoscopic and 3-D Video''
  SPIE/IS\&T Conference ``Stereoscopic Displays and  Applications'' within Electronic Imaging (Jan. 23-29, 1999, San Jose,  CA, USA